Declan Ryan is simply a bread making legend, and is truly one of Irelands best artisanal bread makers. The Arbutus business has grown out of his garage to a staff of five full time bakers in premises in amnew industrial estate in Mayfield, Cork city. Declan...

I am going at first to talk about cows in this post, the reason I will elaborate on later in the article. The cow is greatly revered by Hindus and regarded as a sacred animal within the Hindu religion. The cow is believed to represent divine and natural...

Ummera Smoked Products Timoleague Co Cork In food circles Timoleague is becoming known as home to Anthony Creswell’s Ummera Smoked Products. Ummera since the 1970’s’ has grown a reputation for producing some of the finest smoked salmon available. They also...

Happy new year all, and for the first post of 2012 I am going to break the initial vision for this blog and blog a recipe that I have cooked. Why? Well I love to cook and I aim to blog more about my food philosophy which is not only to use local products,...

Today its nearing the end of November and the weather is nothing like winter almost as warm as an Irish summer. Anyway an ideal morning to hunt for some wild mushrooms, I am very amateur at this using the very fine book “Mushrooms” by John Wright and even...

Like every great man, (Belvelly smokehouse www.frankhederman.com) standing right behind him is two even greater women and Mrs Hederman (Caroline Workman & Frank’s daughter Alex) are no exception. Often the admin people when things get busy as ‘Frank is...

Rathcormac market in County Sligo is fast becoming one of my favourite markets to shop for food. Its location near Drumcliffe under BenBulben’s head makes it a perfect foodie stop for anyone visiting WB Yeats grave. In this post we speak to Courinne of...

This post is a celebration of master butcher Frank Murphy. Frank to me represents all that is good about a local expert butcher and why, when a good local butcher is identified he should be treasured and supported. Why do I say this? As a nation of meat...

Happy new year all, we have an interesting year ahead with lots of new interesting stories and content to be posted to our you tube channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1Qb8ibEp-yetiTHSaQG78w But the first post of 2015 goes to the West Mayo Brewery...

12 Mile from Tall Story media on Vimeo. If you wish to keep up to date with our video blogs please do subscribe to this blog site (look in the bottom right hand corner of the site for a cross and the word follow and you will receive an email each time we...

Originally posted on Spill the Beans: These are the kind of stories and ideas I love seeing coming out of Ireland. Sourcing locally is an integral part of keeping the Irish food and drink industry thriving and with this new documentary 12 Mile, it highlights...

Ardsallagh cheese from Tall Story media on Vimeo. To celebrate the launch of my new food film ’12 mile’ tomorrow at 12 o’clock here is a sneak peak of the piece on Jane Murphy`s Ardsallagh cheese A longstanding presence at the Midleton Farmers Market, Ardsallagh...

Beoir ‘A Tale of Ireland’s Craft Ale’ The full Short film Beoir: A Tale Of Irish Craft Ale from Tall Story media on Vimeo. 3 years ago this photographer went to visit Gordon Fallis of Innismacsaint brewery in Co Fermanagh. I was fascinated with a microbrewery...

Ok folks, in honour of the European beer bloggers conference http://beerbloggersconference.org/ taking place in Dublin this weekend I offer this blog on Kinnegar brewery, http://kinnegarbrewing.ie/ one of my current favourite breweries! Rick Levert was...

This was the fifth Sheridan’s food festival, however it was my first. One wonders how living in Cork during those last 5 years and interested in food & cheese for the last 10 years, how I had never heard of the festival before. This year it was thanks to...

Http://www.atasteofireland.com met with Mescan brewing company coincidentally on the eve of St Patricks day 2014 on their brew day, Mescan is a brewery started by Irish and a Belgian vets Cillian and Bart. These guys named their brewery after St Patrick’s...